FLAC
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* [http://www.winamp.com/ Winamp] (Windows, commercial) | * [http://www.winamp.com/ Winamp] (Windows, commercial) | ||
| − | For more software products which support FLAC, see the [http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html FLAC links page] | + | FLAC is also natively supported by Mozilla's Firefox browser, starting from Firefox 51. For more software products which support FLAC, see the [http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html FLAC links page] |
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* [http://www.dustbury.com/archives/17227 Commentary about Audi car not playing high-bitrate FLACs] | * [http://www.dustbury.com/archives/17227 Commentary about Audi car not playing high-bitrate FLACs] | ||
* [http://dericed.com/2013/flac-in-the-archives/ FLAC in the archives] | * [http://dericed.com/2013/flac-in-the-archives/ FLAC in the archives] | ||
| + | * [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Supported_media_formats Mozilla Firefox supported media formats list] | ||
| + | * [http://www.ghacks.net/2016/08/30/firefox-51-flac-audio-codec-support/ Firefox 51: FLAC Audio Codec Support] | ||
Revision as of 10:34, 5 September 2016
FLAC is a Free Lossless Audio Codec. It can encode audio with a PCM bit resolution up to 32 bits per sample and sampling rates up to 640 kHz. FLAC-encoded audio is usually found either in a native container (which has the extension .flac), or in an Ogg container (when it's known as OggFLAC).
The format is open and royalty-free. The reference implementation is cross-platform and dual-licensed, command-line utilities (e.g. encoder, decoder and metadata editor) use GNU GPL and code libraries use BSD.
FLAC is suitable for archiving for many reasons:
- open format
- support for metadata tagging
- lossless (no generation loss if you need to convert to another format)
- disk size effective (audio is typically reduced to 50-60% of original size)
- data integrity
- error resistant (bit faults are contained within a frame, typically a fraction of a second)
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Playback
Hardware
Many home stereo and portable hardware music players support the FLAC format. See the FLAC links page for an up-to-date list.
Software
A number of popular audio players support the FLAC format, including:
- Amarok (cross-platform, open source)
- foobar2000 (Windows, non-commercial)
- MediaMonkey (Windows, commercial)
- Songbird (cross-platform, open source)
- VLC (cross-platform, open source)
- Winamp (Windows, commercial)
FLAC is also natively supported by Mozilla's Firefox browser, starting from Firefox 51. For more software products which support FLAC, see the FLAC links page
